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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Happy Valentine’s Day!

I have to admit, this is one of my favorite holidays. Who doesn’t love the idea of a celebration of love and friendship? For Valentine’s Day this year I wanted to change things up a little, and thanks to my public library I came up with this terrific idea. Okay, I stole this terrific idea.

Today we’re going to celebrate Valentine’s Day with a Blind Book Date. How it works is that you comment in the comments with your favorite book, and the person who has commented before you has to read that book. In other words, it’s a blind date with a book.

How it works: The very first commenter will post the title and author of a book he or she loves. Since no one has commented before them, that will be the book I will read. Then, the first commenter’s blind date with a book will come from commenter #2, and so on and so on. If you’d like, you should also feel free to include some information on what the book is about or why you love the book.

The event will end at midnight on February 14, EST. At that time (or soon thereafter) I will post my book (the final blind date offering). Then, I’d like all of us to return on March 19 to discuss our experiences. Did we love the book? Hate the book? Was it something different, maybe a genre we’d never read? I’ll post some questions on March 19 for us to discuss.

The only rules are that you are NOT allowed to post the title of a book you have written. This is not an opportunity for self-promotion, but an event for readers and book lovers. If you want to post the book of a friend I can’t stop you from doing that, but I hope that we all look at it as readers and not writers and post books we love, books that have changed us or that we just want others to experience.

I debated requiring that the book be available in print and ebook, but I don’t want to rule out the fact that you might have read a book you love that’s only available in ebook format. What I would suggest, however, is that if you’re debating between two books, pick the one that’s available in both print and ebook format to give those readers who haven’t yet gone tech the opportunity to read the book as well.

And finally, there are no rules regarding genre. A pick you love could be new, a classic, YA or horror, romance or mystery. Whatever it is, please share it. I’m eager to see what everyone comes up with and what we’ll all be reading.

Enjoy!

Jessica

**one additional note. Any comments that are specifically to promote your work will be deleted. Thanks.

I didn't think it'd be so hard to pick one book! I have a lot of favorites, but I tried to pick one that I thought other people might like who might not share my love of children's and teen literature :)

I adore this book, which kicks off a medieval mystery series along the lines of Kay Scarpetta meets the Canterbury Tales. Beautifully written, evocative, and chock full of action, adventure, and romance, it is simply wonderful.

I really enjoyed this book, more than I expected to. I reviewed it on my blog, but suffice to say, if you're not crazy about circuses, don't be put off. It's not about your traditional kind of circus...

Great character story about the horribleness of being a teenager. And also about injustice and prejudice and the law - reminds me a little of To Kill a Mockingbird, only without Atticus Finch, because there are no Atticus Finches in the world of 24 hour headline news.

A long-standing favorite book is The Princess Bride by S. Morgenstern. Unfortunately, the original has been out of print for ages and is almost impossible to find nowadays. Fortunately, William Goldman's abridged version is excellent, and comes highly suggested.

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